6 responses to “Send to the Grammer Vandal”

Perhaps they graduated from the school of “any publicity is GOOD publicity!” and made this error in the hopes that it would give you an extra reason to talk about ‘em on your blog. And if that’s the case…it worked! :)

(Or maybe it’s just that the person who sent these books out is lacking in spelling skills. Sigh.)

Dear Kate, The Grammar Vandal,
Your commenter has made an error using a backwards apostrophe in “talk about ‘em on your blog.” You can’t see it in here with the vertical tick-marks used for apostrophes, and I don’t know how you can fix it other than trying ”em and deleting the first one. It’s probably an automatic fault of using Word.

All I can say is WOW. I had a similar incident recently. I am a freelance editor and I received an email from a young woman inquiring as to whether I was hiring. In her email, she told me what an “eagle-eye for detail” she has — except she misspelled my last name (which is on my website). She didn’t get the job. lol.

You’re a woman after my own heart. I’m absolutely anal about errors in spelling, grammar, context, syntax, etc, etc. I keep a pen handy when I’m reading a book for correcting any of the mistakes I come across. Heaven forbid I should let the next person to read the book think that’s the way it should be. I have to educate them so the bad usage isn’t perpetuated, ad infitinum. (I’m bookmarking this site!) (I won’t even mention the newspapers!)